An inspiring piece- can’t wait for the book.

McW is clearly right that labels are key. “The Elect” is great, though a case can be made for “neoracism”. There’s another label that’s also important-what do we call the centrist alternative? I’m using the word “centrist” broadly to include McW and probably 95% of the people who read Persuasion. Centrists are by temperament disinclined towards labels and lacking in religious impulses, in this sense of the word religion. But we need to come up with something. The way to pry the soft Elect away from their toxic worldview is not reasoned discussion- What they want is another religion, another group to belong to. We need to find someway to provide that to them. So we need a label for what we centrists are, even though by definition we are more heterogeneous them the religions we oppose on both right and left.